I want to be emperor

After Song Erniu disembarked, he did not immediately return to his hometown with a group of entourages. Instead, he planned to stay in the prestigious high-end hotel "Suzhou Creek Hotel" in Lili, North District of Songjiang City, and prepared to find out important raw materials such as canvas in the local area. supply and the situation in the ready-made garment market.

Of course, I didn't forget to send a letter home to inform my parents and elder brother about my situation, and let them know that I have returned to my hometown, but I have to stay in Songjiang City for some business matters, and I expect to stay in Songjiang City for at least half a day months, more than a month before returning to his hometown in northern Jiangsu.

This time back to the mainland, the blind date is one aspect, but taking advantage of this time to return to the mainland to open up the supply of raw materials and develop the local market is also an important matter for Song Erniu's trip.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have returned with the head of the secretary's office and two secretaries, just to deal with many business matters.

After disembarking, Song Erniu's personal butler took the first step, and contacted the carriage rental company that had a cooperative relationship with Pacific Shipping Company, and rented a number of four-wheeled carriages for use.

One of the most luxurious four-wheeled carriages is used as Song Erniu's temporary car, one is used by two personal maids, another is used by the secretary, one is used by the butler's entourage, and the other is used by the housekeeper. It's a car for security personnel.

In addition to Song Erniu's car, a large number of suitcases were also installed at the rear of the other carriages, but they couldn't fit them, so they had to rent two carriages for luggage.

Song Erniu's return to the mainland this time is to go home for blind dates and business work, and no matter which one requires Song Erniu to maintain his dignity.

The ostentation of this trip cannot be underestimated... Otherwise, who knows which green onion you, a young man who came back from America, are?
Still the same sentence, if you don’t show off the pomp, who will take care of you? If you want to contact raw material suppliers in Songjiang, you may not even be able to find the person in charge...

You said that you have a large ready-made garment factory in the Americas, and the denim brand canvas clothes sell well all over North America, but the ghost knows what you said is true or false...

After all, the contemporary information transmission is still relatively slow and narrow... There is a Pacific Ocean between the mainland and the Americas.

In the era of the Great Chu Empire, and even in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of the original time and space, the transmission of information was actually very limited. People’s information sources mainly relied on newspapers, TV, and books. People’s cognition was very limited... To After the Internet matures and a large amount of information is transferred to the Internet, people will be able to receive all kinds of information conveniently and quickly.

Therefore, the Internet age is also called the age of information explosion. Information, especially professional information or knowledge, has become easy to obtain, even free of charge.

On the public Internet, you can obtain most of the knowledge in human history for free.

And this was unimaginable in the previous twentieth century, let alone the current Great Chu Empire.

After all, in the current Great Chu Empire, the carrier of information is still mainly paper, not to mention telegrams, and there are not many pictures.

Although there are ships and railways now, long-distance information exchange is still relatively difficult, and we can only rely on text letters and hand-painted pictures or photos taken by cameras that have just been released in recent years... However, cameras are still very immature, mainly The technology of photosensitive materials and substrates is not good, and the use of cameras is very complicated and troublesome, and the cost is very high.

So even though it was at the beginning of Chengshun's 30th century, the Great Chu Empire actually produced the most primitive camera and took the first photo in human history...but it took half a year to expose that photo. Hours.

After many years of continuous improvement, although the situation has improved, the cameras of the contemporary Great Chu Empire still have not developed to the level of mature cameras of later generations. They are expensive, troublesome to use, and the image quality is not good. Conditions for large-scale commercial use.

So at present, cameras are only used in specific fields, mainly used by official organizations, and rarely used by ordinary people... Many people have never even heard of them, let alone large-scale commercial applications.

In the absence of pictures, the carrier of information can only be text, supplemented by hand-painted pictures.

At the same time, the long-distance transmission of information is also very troublesome, because there is no telegraph...

Compared with the rapid progress of a series of research represented by machinery, especially the steam engine, the research of electromagnetism in the Great Chu Empire is still lagging behind...

After all, the rise of the Great Chu Empire was not that long. It has only been more than [-] years. Luo Zhixue, who has been the ruler of the empire for more than [-] years, is not just trying to create telegrams and steam engines. In fact, Luo Zhixue is The entire science system needs to be built from the ground up, from education to research.

To some extent, what the Great Chu Empire has to do is to quickly fill up and surpass the accumulation of hundreds of years in human history in just two or three decades.

However, the empire's investment is limited, and it is impossible to say that every aspect can be taken care of... Therefore, the empire's investment in education and scientific research has long been inclined to heavy industries represented by steel and coal, as well as extended shipbuilding and trains. , machinery and other heavy industries.

The second is to focus on the protection of people's livelihood, such as related research on agriculture, including grain seed cultivation (including various economic crops), animal husbandry cultivation, research and construction of water conservancy facilities, research and promotion of agricultural tools, etc. The Great Chu Empire's long-term research funding has focused on projects.

There are also some industries related to a large number of private employment and economic leaders, such as the textile industry... Although the textile industry is just a light industry, it seems unimportant at first glance, but in fact the textile industry is very important in the mid-to-early industrial development system. It plays the role of the leader of the industrial economy. In the Great Chu Empire, the textile industry has occupied more than 30.00% of the imperial industrial and commercial economic system for a long time.

Comparing iron and steel mining, ships and trains with the textile industry...that's scum!
To put it bluntly, a large number of seemingly important heavy industries in the Great Chu Empire actually rely on the defense industry and the textile industry to survive, and the size of the defense industry is far less than that of the textile industry!
Regardless of the 200 million Chu yuan for a battleship, the Chu country's ordnance and weapons exported are also expensive, but how much can it sell?

From the beginning to the end, the Great Chu Empire Navy ordered a total of two [-]-ton battleships... This is too expensive, and now it is starting to build [-]-[-]-ton second-class battleships, which is not much, and only plans to build a total of six It's just a boat, and only God knows how many can be built in the end.

It sounds like the Navy has 20 warships, but you have to know that these [-] warships have been accumulated over the past [-] years... It is not that [-] ships are built every year.

Although the exported weapons and equipment are sold very expensive...but in fact the total export volume is not large. not big...

Moreover, making money from arms dealers does not mean that the arsenal makes money... because the prices that arms dealers purchase from the arsenal are still mainly at domestic prices. Matchlock guns, flintlock guns, etc. are all very cheap. As for people selling them in overseas colonies How much, that is the business of other arms dealers...

Of course, behind all the overseas arms dealers in the Great Chu Empire, there are five major domestic arms companies holding shares, and the money earned by overseas arms dealers can also be fed back to the domestic arsenal.

However, this amount is only so large...the driving effect on the upstream industries of the defense industry, such as steel, coal, machinery and corresponding basic industries such as transportation and mining, is very small.

Also, the fact that other weapons companies make a lot of money exporting weapons, and sell the unit price at the sky-high price does not mean that other weapons companies will increase the price when purchasing raw materials and equipment... let alone increase the volume.

The arms export of the Great Chu Empire believed in selling a small amount of weapons at sky-high prices, rather than simply relying on low-price dumping to obtain more sales.

So don't look at the large amount of arms exports, but in fact the number of arms exports is not much...

Overseas, the weapons of Chu State represent high-end, sophisticated and expensive high-quality weapons, not cheap weapons.

In this way, the five major arms companies have made money, but it does not have much driving effect on the upstream and downstream of the defense industry.

What can really drive economic development is the seemingly inconspicuous textile industry, which seems to have no technical threshold, and is a textile industry that individuals can invest in.

Without him, the textile industry is big enough!
In addition to supplying more than 5 million people in the country, the textile industry of the Great Chu Empire also supplies the clothing needs of hundreds of millions of people in India, West Asia, Europe, Africa and other continents.

This adds up to a textile market of more than one billion people, and the core of this textile industry is not the traditional expensive silk spinning as a luxury in the Great Chu Empire, but the cheap cloth spinning and wool spinning.

Huge demand, huge output, and then spurred the same huge demand for machinery and equipment, transportation demand.

Not to mention anything else, just say that the new cotton yarn technology that has emerged in the past two years has directly affected countless upstream and downstream enterprises. Hantian Machinery Company has developed a new type of cotton yarn machine, as well as new equipment supplied by many other manufacturers. There are many parts, material suppliers, heavy industrial equipment suppliers and more.

The rise of a new type of cotton yarn technology has directly or indirectly affected thousands of machinery and metallurgical related manufacturers.

This is after the rise of new cotton yarn technology, the production efficiency of the cotton spinning industry in the Great Chu Empire has been further improved, the cost of machine-made cloth has been further reduced, and more, cheaper and better cloth has begun to be supplied to the country, and will inevitably be supplied to overseas markets in the future.

Cloth made of new cotton yarn, from production to transportation to sales, involves the related industrial chain of the cotton spinning industry itself, such as weaving, printing and dyeing, garments, transportation, sales and so on.

From the beginning to the end, the textile industry is almost related to the entire industrial system and has a major impact.

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire has always invested a considerable amount of research and development funds and policy support in the core industry of the textile industry.

In order to sell the empire's cotton cloth to Europe... the Great Chu Empire even went to war and launched a free trade plan in Europe.

I just got Spain down this spring, and now I am thinking about entering France and gaining the huge French textile market...

And some other core livelihood industries like the textile industry have been the main direction of investment of the Great Chu Empire for many years. Relatively speaking, investment in other industries that have not affected people's livelihood for the time being is less.

The investment in electromagnetic research has not been too much for a long time under such circumstances... This is not because Luo Zhixue does not pay attention to or invest in it. few.

However, things are prioritized, and the resources that the empire can invest in the field of scientific research are also limited.

This is not even a question of whether money is money or not. After all, for a country that is unified and issues its own currency, money is actually of no practical significance, it is just a tool to maintain rule.

The arguable investment mentioned here refers to things other than the so-called scientific research funds, such as top scientific research personnel and top scientific research equipment.

And neither of these two kinds of money can be solved in a short time!
In addition to the training system, the emergence of top talents also depends on luck... Top scientists are not Chinese cabbage, and they are not something you can cultivate if you want to. It also depends on the talent of the talent itself.

And some top-level scientific research equipment, although there is a price in the market, is often in a state where there is no market, because some top-level equipment with a price tag of [-] Chu Yuan is not something you can buy if you want to sell it... and It's not that the factory refuses your order because they don't want to produce, but that their production capacity is so small...why the production capacity is so small, and this has something to do with the scarcity of top talents.

Because quite a lot of top scientific research equipment is too precise, many core components need to be processed by experienced top craftsmen with the help of modern equipment, or simply rubbed out by hand.

And the training of top craftsmen cannot be done quickly... The Great Chu Empire has accumulated more than [-] years to accumulate such top craftsmen. It is impossible to increase the number of top craftsmen in a short time.

This kind of top talent with very high requirements for experience can only be consumed by time, and there is no way to make it fast.

If it is reflected in some of the top scientific research equipment or industrial equipment, it cannot be mass-produced...it doesn't matter how much money it costs.

When the number of top talents and equipment is fixed, and it is difficult to increase quickly in a short period of time, it is natural that some projects can get more, and some projects need less talent and equipment support.

When the empire gives support to these projects, it will naturally not be flat, but will be inclined.

It is mainly inclined to research on people's livelihood...In the early days, the defense industry also paid more attention to it, but in recent years, it has not paid much attention to it. The update and iteration of weapons is often carried out by the five major weapon companies themselves, and the imperial government has seldom released directly. Money for a weapon project.

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire abolished a series of official weapon research institutes, such as artillery research institutes, naval gun research institutes, and firearms research institutes. I gave it to the five major weapon companies to do it themselves.

For a long time, electromagnetism has been a frontier scientific theory in the Great Chu Empire. In the early days, some professors in this field from the Royal Institute of Technology and other universities mainly conducted theoretical research,

These studies actually don’t cost much money. After all, if you only do theory and don’t do experiments, scientific research actually doesn’t cost much money... just give it a little money.

It's not like those research projects that deal with materials, burning money one by one is like burning paper... and whether it can be done in the end depends on character.

Most of the materials with good performance produced by the Great Chu Empire today are born by accidents that normal people cannot understand...

Most of the time, it is in the experiments that even the researchers themselves don't know what they want to do...accidentally get some kind of material.

For example, some researchers will heat and pressurize material a to a certain extent when they are bored, and see what they will get...

Or I took the tape and tore the graphite sheet with my brain, and after tearing the tape countless times, I discovered graphene... How can a person with a normal brain tear the graphite sheet countless times with the tape?
Some people play with magnetic field equipment, and then throw all kinds of things into the magnetic field equipment out of curiosity, such as water, strawberries, tomatoes, and finally even a frog... normal Adults can't do this kind of thing...

The researchers in the Great Chu Empire are actually similar. In countless material experiments similar to this kind of nonsense, they found that the materials obtained in a certain experiment were quite good, and could be applied in a certain field, and then they will be targeted in the future. conduct various studies.

This makes it almost like engaging in theology in the current Great Chu Empire, which is full of metaphysics...

And this great uncertainty, coupled with the need for countless experiments, has caused material research to be extremely expensive.

But even though material research is full of metaphysics...but the official research institutions in the Great Chu Empire, such as the Royal Institute of Technology, various universities, and various government-run or private enterprises, have always maintained great enthusiasm for material research and development, and constantly Spend money on research.

Because materials represent the future... This kind of future is not just the too illusory things like the future of mankind or the future of the empire, but refers to the interests, the interests of research institutions, and the interests of enterprises.

Why is Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. able to be so powerful in the field of machine tool equipment, dominate the world, and almost monopolize most of the domestic high-end machine tool market share? Their net profit can account for more than half of the entire industry...

Hantian Machinery Company can take half of the net profit of the entire machine tool industry in the Great Chu Empire, and dozens of other manufacturers compete for the remaining half.

It is because Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. is unique in the technology of high-strength industrial knives, and behind this kind of industrial knives is a series of advanced material technology and processing technology. These materials and processes are the support of Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. The background of the largest scientific research and industrial equipment manufacturer.

Not to mention Hantian Machinery Company, the number two in the field of equipment, that is, Lee's Steel Manufacturing.

Their subsidiaries Li's Machine Tool Company and Li's Precision Machinery Company are two wholly-owned subsidiaries in the field of equipment. Although they can't compete with Hantian Machinery Company, the reason why they can stabilize the second place in the country is that they have an exclusive series of advanced equipment. technical...

Still taking industrial knives as an example, the series of industrial yoga knives produced by Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. have the best overall quality, and are even the only ones in many special fields, and their prices are notoriously expensive...but no matter how expensive they are You have to hold your nose and admit it, because you have no other choice...

The reason why Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. can monopolize half of the profits of the machine tool industry is because you have no alternatives to choose from many of its products, and you can only buy their products...they are expensive.

As for the industrial knives produced by Lee's Steel, although their performance is a bit poor, they are cheap... In the middle and low-end fields that do not require much, the industrial knives produced by Lee's Steel are the best choice, and they are extremely cost-effective. If it is finally fed back to the production cost, the comprehensive production cost is also the lowest.

Lee's Steel's cost-effective knives have extremely high technical content, because they focus on the low-end market and target customers are very sensitive to prices, and Lee's Steel must make the quality of the knives as high as possible within a certain price range. To satisfy customers, the technology here is not simple.

Sometimes it is not easy to make high-end products, but it is even more difficult to make low-end products.

For the former, you only need to consider performance, but for the latter, you also need to consider cost performance.

The cheapest and cheapest industrial products often represent the top manufacturing technology behind them... You can't make it so cheap without that technology.

Research costs money, and after spending money, in most cases, you can always see benefits, or potential benefits!

This is also the reason why a lot of basic research, especially theoretical research, requires official funding from the empire.

This is currently the case for electromagnetic research. Its basic theoretical research and a small number of experimental research are basically concentrated in the Royal Institute of Technology, using the internal research and development funds of the Royal Institute of Technology... The internal research and development funds of the Royal Institute of Technology, although most of them are Self-raising, a small part is financial appropriation, but no matter from which level, these are all state funds.

After all, the Royal Institute of Technology is an official administrative institution... It is not a commercial organization, nor is it a purely teaching organization, but a national scientific research institution with teaching attributes.

The reason why the name of the Institute of Technology is just historical inertia, in fact, it is more appropriate to call it "Research Institute" or "Academy of Science".

Therefore, the expenditures within the Royal Institute of Technology also follow the general direction of the empire in the selection of projects, mainly focusing on the direction of people's livelihood.

Of course, all kinds of basic theoretical research, and even pure theoretical research without any profit output, such as mathematics, theoretical physics, etc., also have sufficient research funding guarantees... But these pure theoretical projects themselves are not too expensive.

For a long time, electromagnetism has been done as a purely theoretical research... This is why the empire is developing rapidly in other fields, especially in the field of machinery, while the application of electromagnetism, such as the application of telegraphs, is so slow. The reason has not yet been realized.

However, with the continuous development of the empire's society and technology, especially with more and more overseas territories, the empire also increasingly needs a more convenient and fast communication method to replace the steam fast communication ship as a trans-oceanic communication. It began to invest more funds in electromagnetism, and began to conduct intensive and messy experiments. At the beginning of the year, an experimental short-distance telegraph test was carried out, which achieved complete success.

But it will take a few years to get the telegram out and put it into practical large-scale application!
Compared with the development of science and technology in the contemporary Great Chu Empire, compared with the middle and late nineteenth century of the original time and space, it is actually unbalanced... the strong places are very strong, and even some fields have reached the level of the 80s in the nineteenth century, such as In the field of steam engines, ships and trains, but weak is really weak in some fields, such as electromagnetism, even the telegraph has not yet been developed, and the original time and space history In the 30s, the British had already started to develop wired telegraphs up.

In the contemporary Great Chu Empire, the development of science and technology is unbalanced.

But this is also the conclusion drawn from Luo Zhixue's point of view by comparing it with the original time and space... If he was a native of Chu, he would not have this kind of confusion, let alone feel that there is an imbalance in the technological development of the empire. Because in their cognition, this world is like this...

This is the case with Song Erniu. He doesn't feel that there are many imbalances in the technological development of the current empire, and he doesn't feel that there is no telegraph because he feels that there is no telegram... He even used the word telegram in the Dachu Dynasty newspaper in North America last month. It was the first time I saw it on the forum, and I thought it was amazing that it could transmit information through metal wires.

In the future, if a transoceanic telegraph line can be laid on the Pacific Ocean as imagined in the newspapers, wouldn't it be possible for the Americas and the mainland to communicate conveniently and quickly?

If this is really possible, it may help his business in the future... After all, he is planning to open a factory in the local area to seize the local ready-made clothing market.

There are factories in these two places, and both sides must be managed. It would be great if there is a fast and convenient transoceanic telegram.

It's just that such a thing as a transoceanic telegraph is still a bit of science fiction in Song Erniu's view...God knows how many years it will take to get it done.

But at the moment when the information is not clear, Song Erniu can't tell others bluntly, I am a millionaire, very rich, and I am here to do business with you.

In order to avoid the situation that he couldn't even get an appointment when he was looking for a business partner, he specially chose the place to stay in Songjiang City, a high-end hotel with a long history and high society gathering: Suzhou Creek Hotel.

Well, it is the Suzhou Fu Hotel under the name of Mrs. Wang Liqing, the owner of Anhua Textile Company!

Compared with Mrs. Wang's economic strength and social status, Wang Liqing is still far behind... After all, although Mrs. Wang takes care of the baby at home every day and looks like a husband and wife, everyone in the upper class of Songjiang basically knows that she is A famous rent collector who is also the owner of the first echelon luxury hotel in Songjiang city.

Many so-called office buildings used by famous enterprises are rented by her property.

As for Wang Liqing himself, he set up a cotton yarn factory. Although the development in the past two years is not bad, it is just like that... There are many large enterprises in Songjiang City, and his Anhua Textile Company is not yet ranked. , It is relatively well-known in the independent cotton yarn industry if it is exhausted.

When Song Erniu brought a group of people to the Suzhou Creek Hotel, he couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion when he saw this luxurious hotel that he didn't even have the courage to approach the gate when he was in Songjiang City.

And when a number of waiters in decent business attire at the door walked quickly and hurried forward to open the carriage door for him and his group, Song Erniu couldn't help but smile.

Who would have thought that he was born as a cowherd boy, a pauper in the bottom of Songjiang City, and became a millionaire a few years later, directly leading a large group of people to live in one of the most luxurious hotels in Songjiang City!

Even he himself felt that all this was like a dream!